SESSION 5
THEME: Multiple Marginalizations: Youth from historically disadvantaged sites
Mr. Vijay Burgula (Yugantar) & Mr. Kumarswamy (Osmania University)
Youth from Marginalised regions: A case study of Telangana
The important Telangana event was in 1948 whereas the presenter focus on 1952 onwards.
Mr. Raoof Mir presented the paper 'Caught in the space between: HYderabad's Muslim youth and experiences of alienation
His paper focus on the 'insider' versus 'outsider' perspective. The Muslim youth feels that the development and infrastructure in Hyderabad city is something they are not a part of. He talks about the WAHHABI IDEOLOGY in ISLAM. This is the first I was introduced to the term. WAHHABISM is a religious movement or a branch of Sunni Islam which is considered to be EXTREMIST and HERETICAL by many Sunni and Shi'a such as the Islamic Supreme Council of America. It was developed by the 18th century Muslim theologian Muhammad Ibn Abn al-Wahhab. He advocated purging Islam of impurities. The primary Wahhabi doctrine is TAWHID.
Because of the bad name met by Islamism today, the youth are twice marginalised--first by the people from other religion as they are considered a threat to security of community wherever they go. There is also exclusion of youth
within the community.There is restriction of social mobility of youth. ANother aspects of alienation face by the Muslim youth is from people inside their own community. This is especially so for the detained or arrested youth to whom the community's attitude changes. This population is growing at a great rate as the muslim youth are easily arrested on mere suspicion. They are excommunicated by the society and they have a problem of getting their sisters' married as they are stimatised in the society. There is a paradox in the actual result of an experience in jail from the label of a 'hero' to one that is 'ostrasized.'
Regarding the Religious community influences...there were three issues that were important--
1. homogenising discourses versus heterogeneous experiences.
2. cultural practices on everyday practices
3. popular assumptions on Wahhabi influence on youth.
WAHHABISM is a religious movement or a branch of Sunni Islam which is considered to be EXTREMIST and HERETICAL by many Sunni and Shi'a such as the Islamic Supreme Council of America.
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Dear Raoof
ReplyDeleteI got this from wikipidia...These are my rough notes from attending your paper. Please enlightened me on the topic because, this is the first time I have been introduce to the term. Thanks for taking time out to read my blog. Congrats on a good presentation!
Hello. Thanks for taking so much of interest in the topic. Basically i didnt see your reply and didnt get any message saying that you have replied my message. Today I was randomly searching for something and your blog address appeared, so opened it and saw your reply. My email is raoofmir@gmail.com.
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